From that article: "used in my example above where we decided that us meant “unsafe string” and s meant “safe string.” They’re both of type string. The compiler won’t help you if you assign one to the other" Assuming…
This article is about pre-rendering a webpage to png, so anyone using a text-based browser would actually find the result even less useful than the original page.
I agree that a numpad isn't really necessary. The keys I miss on a laptop keyboard are: - Home, end, pgup, pgdown - Delete - Function keys that are just F-keys, not volume/brightness controls that act as F-keys when you…
If you're using the mouse, not having focus follows mouse means you have to click twice to activate something in a window without focus, which from my point of view as someone who uses focus-follows-mouse, is pointless…
I found this to be one of git's greatest strengths; Beyond the basics, it doesn't force you to use features you don't need or want. Initially, I just committed snapshots in a single branch. Later, I found I wanted to do…
I also round them up, but in doing so, it makes me think about the fact that the price doesn't reflect the 'value' of the product: If they hadn't rounded it to ₤X.99, would it have been more or less? How much of that is…
Our local libraries recently started an ebook program. However, copyright restrictions mean they aren't allowed to loan a single 'copy' out to more than one person at once. With the relatively small number of ebook…
Would it help if they were prepared in such a way as to make them unrecognisable? I know plenty of people who will happily eat mince, chops, etc., but who find it offputting if there are signs of where the meat came…
> The trick to the author's math That's the trouble with this article; With the dependence on buying everything in bulk (and somehow using it all up before it goes off), it appears to be more of a fun theoretical…
The better areas are taken by those with money. You can move to a better area, but the police will turn up before long to move you on.
You'd have to walk for hours to check all the prices and work out the cheapest from various supermarkets though. Also, the more calories you burn walking across town to find, purchase, and carry home the very cheapest…
I agree. Local seasonal veg from a good greengrocer or market is cheap and healthy.
> …hopefully they do it in a different way, doing the same thing twice is pointless. I believe Newton said, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.", not, "I have rediscovered…
In addition to the other answers, don't forget that in the situation described, if you remove the 'thousands of unauthorized copies', you still haven't sold any copies. In terms of semantics: "Say I write a book but…
I think perhaps there is an increasing tendency to design one UI for every platform (touch screen tablets, desktops etc.) and to favour consistency across platforms rather than proper integration within each platform.…
This appears to be trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist with a solution that is more problematic than the problem it attempts to solve. If my browser can handle pdfs, I probably want to view them using the…
It wouldn't read your .bash_profile, because it cannot. Any variables that are set by your .bash_profile will therefore not be set, and anything that depends on them being set may break.
I noticed this too. Sometimes the simple solutions are the best (compare with the long thread of suggested solutions further down this page). It's like a master-criminal's subtle and sophisticated plan being foiled by a…
> There was an attempt to port homebrew to linux, but it didn't go far. Linux already has more package managers than you can shake a stick at. To gain traction on linux, homebrew would have to offer useful features…
> Many jewelers were confused and incredulous when we asked about one. Bear in mind that it is in the jeweller's interest to perpetuate such superstitions as it means they can persuade many customers to buy a new…
Basic advertising is important in that you cannot sell a product without letting people know it exists. However, I think the advertising industry grossly exaggerates the importance of advertising. The trouble is, it's…
This was my first thought. If you don't have to chew your food, your jaw muscles will atrophy (and I believe teeth and gums may also suffer from lack of use). If you have to chew gum to make up for this, you're starting…
You personally may not care which term is used. However, if you want to get the law changed, you probably need to get a large number of people interested in the issue. One way to do this would be to force the use of the…
How about: * Deliberately making terms and conditions so long and verbose that no-one has the will/time to read them and is more likely to simply check the "I have read the terms and conditions" checkbox without…
I sometimes wonder why languages use sequences like "->". This is clearly meant to represent an arrow, so why has noone ever taken the time to make sure an arrow character is defined, make sure it's possible to type…
From that article: "used in my example above where we decided that us meant “unsafe string” and s meant “safe string.” They’re both of type string. The compiler won’t help you if you assign one to the other" Assuming…
This article is about pre-rendering a webpage to png, so anyone using a text-based browser would actually find the result even less useful than the original page.
I agree that a numpad isn't really necessary. The keys I miss on a laptop keyboard are: - Home, end, pgup, pgdown - Delete - Function keys that are just F-keys, not volume/brightness controls that act as F-keys when you…
If you're using the mouse, not having focus follows mouse means you have to click twice to activate something in a window without focus, which from my point of view as someone who uses focus-follows-mouse, is pointless…
I found this to be one of git's greatest strengths; Beyond the basics, it doesn't force you to use features you don't need or want. Initially, I just committed snapshots in a single branch. Later, I found I wanted to do…
I also round them up, but in doing so, it makes me think about the fact that the price doesn't reflect the 'value' of the product: If they hadn't rounded it to ₤X.99, would it have been more or less? How much of that is…
Our local libraries recently started an ebook program. However, copyright restrictions mean they aren't allowed to loan a single 'copy' out to more than one person at once. With the relatively small number of ebook…
Would it help if they were prepared in such a way as to make them unrecognisable? I know plenty of people who will happily eat mince, chops, etc., but who find it offputting if there are signs of where the meat came…
> The trick to the author's math That's the trouble with this article; With the dependence on buying everything in bulk (and somehow using it all up before it goes off), it appears to be more of a fun theoretical…
The better areas are taken by those with money. You can move to a better area, but the police will turn up before long to move you on.
You'd have to walk for hours to check all the prices and work out the cheapest from various supermarkets though. Also, the more calories you burn walking across town to find, purchase, and carry home the very cheapest…
I agree. Local seasonal veg from a good greengrocer or market is cheap and healthy.
> …hopefully they do it in a different way, doing the same thing twice is pointless. I believe Newton said, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.", not, "I have rediscovered…
In addition to the other answers, don't forget that in the situation described, if you remove the 'thousands of unauthorized copies', you still haven't sold any copies. In terms of semantics: "Say I write a book but…
I think perhaps there is an increasing tendency to design one UI for every platform (touch screen tablets, desktops etc.) and to favour consistency across platforms rather than proper integration within each platform.…
This appears to be trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist with a solution that is more problematic than the problem it attempts to solve. If my browser can handle pdfs, I probably want to view them using the…
It wouldn't read your .bash_profile, because it cannot. Any variables that are set by your .bash_profile will therefore not be set, and anything that depends on them being set may break.
I noticed this too. Sometimes the simple solutions are the best (compare with the long thread of suggested solutions further down this page). It's like a master-criminal's subtle and sophisticated plan being foiled by a…
> There was an attempt to port homebrew to linux, but it didn't go far. Linux already has more package managers than you can shake a stick at. To gain traction on linux, homebrew would have to offer useful features…
> Many jewelers were confused and incredulous when we asked about one. Bear in mind that it is in the jeweller's interest to perpetuate such superstitions as it means they can persuade many customers to buy a new…
Basic advertising is important in that you cannot sell a product without letting people know it exists. However, I think the advertising industry grossly exaggerates the importance of advertising. The trouble is, it's…
This was my first thought. If you don't have to chew your food, your jaw muscles will atrophy (and I believe teeth and gums may also suffer from lack of use). If you have to chew gum to make up for this, you're starting…
You personally may not care which term is used. However, if you want to get the law changed, you probably need to get a large number of people interested in the issue. One way to do this would be to force the use of the…
How about: * Deliberately making terms and conditions so long and verbose that no-one has the will/time to read them and is more likely to simply check the "I have read the terms and conditions" checkbox without…
I sometimes wonder why languages use sequences like "->". This is clearly meant to represent an arrow, so why has noone ever taken the time to make sure an arrow character is defined, make sure it's possible to type…